Oil & Gas, North Africa

Egypt and Libya gas pipeline talks head to Cairo after Tripoli meeting

13th November, 2026

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty pressed in Tripoli on 7 November for faster progress on gas pipeline links with Libya and on refining Libyan crude in Egypt, and Libya’s acting Minister of Oil and Gas, Khalifa Abdulsadek, says he will take the technical talks to Cairo.

In Tripoli on 7 November, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told Libya’s acting Minister of Oil and Gas, Khalifa Abdulsadek, that Egypt wants faster progress on the Egypt-Libya gas pipeline projects that would link the two countries’ networks and on refining Libyan crude at Egyptian facilities for re-export, according to a statement from Egypt’s foreign ministry issued late that day. The meeting also covered the rehabilitation of Libya’s refineries and an electricity interconnection between the two countries.

Egypt’s gas production fell from 6.56 billion cubic feet a day in 2021 to 3.94 bcf/d in 2025 while consumption held at around 6 bcf/d, on Energy Institute and S&P Global figures, and the country imported a record 9.01 million tonnes of LNG last year. Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi said in August that a standard LNG cargo now costs about $80m, up from $40m.

Libya produced about 1.37 million barrels a day in 2025, according to its National Oil Corporation, exporting 335.41 million barrels as crude while 47.56 million barrels went to its own refineries, whose output NOC Chairman Masoud Suleiman said in January is capped at 180,000 barrels a day against a nominal capacity of 380,000.

Egypt’s refineries can process 40 million tonnes of crude a year, and Egyptian contractor PETROJET signed a memorandum of understanding with the NOC in January that includes refining and studies of oil and gas transport options. Abdulsadek said he would visit Cairo to continue technical talks with Egypt’s petroleum and electricity ministers.

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